Loa26?
 

Haven't been able to get to a show yet, but has anyone brought this LOA up?
Why are some sections pushed off to 9 months, and some to CMS, and some to still be determined?

I just feel that if we say "YES", then it all should be a done deal, and not have to wait to see what the JIT figures out. And in the meantime the financial cliff comes, or whatever else might happen that is being said why we should say yes now and not wait any further...:confused:

9 months or more because our management will likely interpret as they see fit the top of the column in blue: Expected Implementation

It has to do with a new, common, crew scheduling, system bidding, monthly bidding, behind-the-scenes payroll interface that has yet to be written. Software can't be written without specs and there aren't any specs until one has a ratified JCBA...nor does it get written overnight.

And with the way this company writes code...good luck to us all.

The writing of the code has been subcontracted to an experienced vendor...HP I think...not sure. That sophisticated of an IT project does not exist in-house.

What? HP is an expert in Fortran? Wow...

Good god. Nine months to write code for these relatively minor changes? No wonder we suck.

...and to get through another summer. IOW they won't have to deal with their understaff-by-design operation until 2014. Very smart.

Actually 8 months to find someone that is still alive that remembers how to write fortran, 1 month for that person to try to re-learn how, and a year of management excuses after that on their IT failures.

You would be surprised at how much FORTRAN programming is still in use. The latest version is FORTRAN2008.